Black Panther collection, circa 1967-1973.
Collection Number: 8069
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Black Panther collection, circa 1967-1973.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
8069
Abstract:
Publications, posters, handbills, flyers and news clippings covering the activities
of the Black Panthers and several of its members. Publications include issues of the
periodicals The Black Panther, Black Panther community newsletter, Liberated guardian,
Open city, and The Berkeley tribe, and pamphlets by Huey P. Newton and Kim Il Sung.
Many of the posters, handbills, and flyers concern Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, or
Eldridge Cleaver. Other items include a cover proof for If they come in the morning
by Angela Y. Davis.
Creator:
Black Panther Party
Kim, Il-sŏng, 1912-1994.
Newton, Huey P.
Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944- (Title of work: If they come in the morning..)
Quanitities:
1.5 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Publications, posters, handbills, flyers and news clippings covering the activities
of the Black Panthers and several of its members. Publications include issues of the
periodicals The Black Panther, Black Panther community newsletter, Liberated guardian,
Open city, and The Berkeley tribe, and pamphlets by Huey P. Newton and Kim Il Sung.
Many of the posters, handbills, and flyers concern Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, or
Eldridge Cleaver. Other items include a cover proof for If they come in the morning
by Angela Y. Davis.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Black Panther Collection, #8069. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Newton, Huey P.
Seale, Bobby, 1936-
Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-1998.
Black Panther Party
Form and Genre Terms:
Fliers (printed matter).
Posters.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Publications
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Subseries Ia. Black Panther Community News Service
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Box 6 | Folder 2 |
No. 4, You Can't Jail a Revolution
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1969-09-01 |
Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Vol. 1, No. 6, Huey Must be Set Free!
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1967-11-23 |
Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Vol. 3, No. 21, Next Victim of Fascist Frameup?
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1969-09-13 |
Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Vol. 4, No. 3, By lifting their hands against these revolutionaries
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1969-12-20 |
Scope and Contents
Year misidentified on cover as 1967
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Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Vol. 2, No. 2, Free All Black Political Prisoners
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1968-05-04 |
Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Vol. 2, No. 23, Happy Birthday Huey
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1969-02-17 |
Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Vol. 2, No. 25, Viva Zapata 1883-1919
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1969-03-09 |
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Vol. 2, No. 28, Chairman Bobby Seale Returns From Scandinavia
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1969-03-31 |
Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Vol. 3, No. 8, Capitalism Plus Racism Breeds Fascism
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1969-06-14 |
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Vol. 3, No. 9, Reagan's Fascist Pigs Vamp on Sacramento HQ
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1969-06-21 |
Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Vol. 3, No. 11, Eldridge Cleaver Breaks His Silence
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1969-07-05 |
Box 4 | Folder 9 |
Vol. 3, No. 12
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1969-07-12 |
Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Vol. 3, No. 14, United Against Fascism
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1969-07-26 |
Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Vol. 3, No. 22, Our Fight Is Not in Vietnam
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1969-09-20 |
Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Vol 3, No. 24, Bobby Seale, Chairman
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1969-10-04 |
Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Vol. 3, No. 28, Political Prisoners of USA Fascism
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1969-11-01 |
Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Vol. 4, No. 4, Although my body may be bound and shackled…
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1969-12-27 |
Box 4 | Folder 14 |
Vol. 4, No. 8, The Invincible Thoughts of The Black Panther Party Can Never Be Destroyed
By Fire Nor Water,
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1970-01-31 |
Box 4 | Folder 15 |
Vol. 4, No. 10, Happy Birthday Huey
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1970-02-17 |
Box 4 | Folder 16 |
Vol. 4, No. 14, Hunter's Point 1967; Hunter's Point 1970
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1970-03-07 |
Box 4 | Folder 17 |
Vol. 4, No. 18, He Was The Beginning: Lil Bobby Hutton
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1970-04-06 |
Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Vol. 4, No. 20, "This Is But An Aspect Of The Unfolding Picture Of American Fascism,"
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1970-04-18 |
Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Vol. 4, No. 22, 'The Black Panther Party is the People's Party and We Are Primarily
Interested in Freeing Man.'
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1970-05-02 |
Box 5 | Folder 3 |
Vol. 4, No. 24, The Heirs of Malcolm Have Picked Up The Gun and Now Stand Millions
Strong Facing The Racist Pig Oppressor
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1970-05-19 |
Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Vol. 4, No. 25 and 26, Babylon,
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1970-05-31 |
Box 5 | Folder 5 |
Vol. 5, No. 7, Revolutionary Suicide
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1970-08-15 |
Box 5 | Folder 6 |
Vol. 5, No. 8, If The Penalty for the Quest for Freedom is Death—Then by Death We
Escape to Freedom
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1970-08-21 |
Box 5 | Folder 7 |
Vol. 5, No. 10, Lonnie McLucas
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1970-09-05 |
Box 5 | Folder 8 |
Vol. 5, No. 17, Rent-A-Pid Kills 14 Year Old Brother In Homemade Playground
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1970-10-24 |
Box 5 | Folder 9 |
Vol. 5, No. 20, On The Battlefield In Cairo, Illinois
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1970-11-14 |
Box 5 | Folder 10 |
Vol. 5, No. 24, New York City…Criminal Slumlords Are Crime Partners With City Government
Officials and Courts
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1970-12-26 |
Box 5 | Folder 11 |
Vol. 5, No. 26, The Last Christmas???
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1970-12-14 |
Box 5 | Folder 12 |
Vol. 5, No. 28, In the spirit of revolutionary solidarity
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1971-01-09 |
Subseries Ia. Black Panther Intercommunal News Service
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Box 5 | Folder 13 |
Vol. 6, No. 5, The San Quentin Branch of The Black Panther Party Opens!
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1971-02-27 |
Box 5 | Folder 14 |
Vol. 6, No. 9, The World is Yours, As Well As Ours
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1971-03-27 |
Box 5 | Folder 15 |
Vol. 6, No. 11, Black Genocide: Sickle Cell Anemia
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1971-04-10 |
Box 5 | Folder 16 |
Vol. 7. No. 12, World War III?
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1971-11-13 |
Box 5 | Folder 17 |
Vol. 7, No. 19, Cease-fire Verdict in L.A.
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1972-01-01 |
Box 5 | Folder 20 |
Vol. 7, No. 25, Another Mother For Struggle
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1972-02-12 |
Box 5 | Folder 21 |
Vol. 7, No. 28. Welcome Home, Angela Davis
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1972-03-04 |
Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Vol. 7, No. 29, The Glass Cage Must Come Down!
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1971-08-14 |
Box 5 | Folder 22 |
Vol. 8, No. 5, No Eviction, Free Repairs—If You Were Your Own Landlord
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1972-04-22 |
Box 5 | Folder 23 |
Vol. 8, No. 21, Survival Pending Liberation
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1972-08-12 |
Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Vol. 9, No. 26, Vote April 17th
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1973-04-14 |
Box 1 |
Center spread only, "24 Hour Vigils for Eldridge Cleaver"
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1968-12-07 | |
Subseries Ia. Other publications
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Box 4 | Folder 18 |
Right On! Black Community News Service, Vol. 1, No. 1, Deputy Field Marshall Robert
Webb Slain by Huey's Assassins
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1971-04-03 |
Box 4 | Folder 19-20 |
Right On! Revolutionary Peoples Communication Network. 32 Political Prisoners Murdered
in Attica Prison
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1971 |
Box 4 | Folder 21 |
Right On! Revolutionary Peoples Communications Network, Vol. 1, No. 3, Special Issue:
The Peoples Republic of Congo
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1971-08-03 |
Box 6 | Folder 1 |
The Black Panther
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Undated |
Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Liberated Guardian
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1970-05-01 |
Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Open City, No. 64
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1968-08-09 |
Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Open City, No. 65
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1968-08-16 |
Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Hustler!
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1968-11-14 |
Box 1 |
The Berkeley Tribe, center spread
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1970-02-13 | |
Box 1 |
"The Panthers of Wrath are Wiser than the Horses of Instruction" clipping from unidentified
newspaper
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Undated | |
Series II. Fliers, Handbills, and Posters
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Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Zaterdatg 14 Maart … Eldridge Cleaver komt naar Nederland Toe
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Undated |
Handbill
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Scope and Contents
Netherlands
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Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Vrÿheidsschool, Rozenstraat 6: Alle macht aan het volk
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Undated |
Flier
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Scope and Contents
Netherlands
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Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Who is Huey P. Newton?
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Undated |
Creator: Huey Newton Defense Fund
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Packet
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Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Notes on the Black Panther Party for Self Defense and the Peace and Freedom Movement
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Undated |
Packet
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Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Notes on the Black Panther Party for Self Defense and the Peace and Freedom Movement
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1968 |
Handbill
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Box 6 | Folder 1 |
The Black Panther Party – Why?
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1968 |
Handbill
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Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Who is Huey P. Newton?
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Undated |
Creator: Huey Newton Defense Fund
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Packet
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Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Essays from the Minister of Defense
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1968 |
Creator: Newton, Huey P.
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Scope and Contents
Berkeley
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Box 6 | Folder 1 |
College of Malcolm X
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1969 |
Pamphlet
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Scope and Contents
Santa Cruz, CA
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Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Eldridge Cleaver is Running for President."
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1968 |
Creator: Campus Peace and Freedom
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Pamphlet
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Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Each of you should be prepared to be a match for one hundred
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1970 |
Creator: New World Liberation Front
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Creator: Sung, Kim Il
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Pamphlet
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Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Alprentice Bunchy Carter Free Clinic
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Undated |
Flier
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Scope and Contents
Los Angeles Area
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Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Walk Wendell
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Undated |
Flier
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Scope and Contents
South Pasadena, CA
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Box 6 | Folder 2 |
John Huggins Free Hot Breakfast Program for Children
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Undated |
Flier
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Scope and Contents
Los Angeles
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Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Occupying Pigs Running Amok
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Undated |
Flier
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Scope and Contents
Los Angeles Area
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Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Protests of the film Superfly
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1972 |
Packet
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Scope and Contents
Newark, NJ
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Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Cover proof for If They Come in the Morning
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1971 |
Creator: Davis, Angela
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Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Liberation News Service #370 cover
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1971-08-25 |
Scope and Contents
New York
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Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Conference: Nigeria Biafra Relief
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1969-04 |
Flier
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Scope and Contents
Berkeley
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Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Friends of the Black Panthers: Bobby Seale rappin' and Phil Ochs singin'…
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Undated"> |
Flier
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Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Liberation News Service #370 cover
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Undated1970-04-18">1970-04-18 |
Scope and Contents
New York
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Box 6 | Folder 2 |
What Are the Facts? Who Are the Real Criminals?
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Undated |
Poster
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Scope and Contents
Philadelphia
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Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Huey P. Newton Ralley
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1970-02 |
Flier
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Box 1 |
What We Want: October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform
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1966-10 | |
Poster
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Scope and Contents
New Haven
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Box 1 |
Power to the People
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Undated | |
Poster|pamphlet
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Scope and Contents
New York
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Box 1 |
"Ramparts" Bobby Seale
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1970-01 | |
Poster
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Box 1 |
May Day… Free Huey Day – Mass Rally…
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1969-04 | |
Poster
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Scope and Contents
San Francisco, CA
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Box 1 |
Free David Hilliard – Black Panther Party – Free All Political Prisoners
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1971 | |
Poster
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Box 1 |
Ramparts mounted cover
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1970-01 | |
Box 1 |
Black Panther Party: Central Headquarters. Unused letterhead
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Undated | |
Box 1 |
Vote For Survival: Bobby Seale for Mayor of Oakland
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1973 | |
Poster
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Box 1 |
Elaine Brown for Councilwoman of Oakland
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1973 | |
Poster
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Scope and Contents
Oakland
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Box 1 |
Bobby Seale for Mayor of Oakland
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1973 | |
Poster
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Scope and Contents
Oakland
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Box 1 |
Here and Now for Bobby Seale
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Undated | |
Poster
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Box 1 |
Seize the Time
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Undated | |
Poster
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Box 1 |
Untitled poster designed by Emory Douglas: Mother and Child
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Undated | |
Creator: Douglas, Emory
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Poster
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Box 1 |
The Black Panther Party: 40th Reunion and Celebration
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2006 | |
Poster
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Scope and Contents
Oakland
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Box 1 |
Free Huey Newton: Stokely Carmichael, Kathleen Cleaver, Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale.
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Undated | |
Poster
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Box 1 |
George Jackson, Field Mashal, Black Panther Party
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Undated | |
Poster
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Box 6 | Folder 1 |
56 vintage newspaper and magazine clippings relating to the Black Panther Party
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Undated |
Box 3 | Folder 1 |
End Racist Attacks on Panthers—Rely on Workers, Not Lawyers!
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Undated |
Creator: Progressive Labor Party
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Flier|Mimeograph
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Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Attica…
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1972 |
Creator: United Defense to Free Political Prisoners
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Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Cisco-Kidd Pig Rizzo Oinks Again! Gunman Slain by Police
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1970 |
Flyer|Mimeograph
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Box 3 | Folder 4 |
The People Must Free the 21!!
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1970 |
Flyer|Mimeograph
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Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Community Meetings with the Black Panther Party
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1970-1972 |
Flyer|Mimeograph
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Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Revolutionary Intercommunal Solidarity Day Rally
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1970 |
Flyer|Mimeograph
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Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Where's the Conspiracy, Free the Panther 21
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1970 |
Flyer|Mimeograph
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Box 3 | Folder 8 |
It's a Free Country… Isn't it?
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1969 |
Flyer|Mimeograph
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Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Black People Boycott
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1965-1969 |
Flyer|Mimeograph
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Box 3 | Folder 10 |
People's No. 1 Enemy
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1970-1974 |
Flyer|Mimeograph
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Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Free the Panther 21, Free All Political Prisoners
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1970 |
Handbill|Mimeograph
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Box 3 | Folder 12 |
You Can Help The Harlem 4
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1972 |
Creator: Charter Group for a Pledge of Conscience
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Flyer|Mimeograph
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Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Relocations
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1969-1970 |
Flyer|Mimeograph
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Box 3 | Folder 14 |
First You… Now Your Children…
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1965-1970 |
Flyer|Mimeograph
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Box 3 | Folder 15 |
Free the N.Y. 21
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1970 |
Flyer
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Box 3 | Folder 16 |
Over the Bridge; On to the Jail; People's Power; Is the Panther's Bail!
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1969-1972 |
Flyer
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Scope and Contents
advertising march in Queens, New York to free the Panther 21, Bobby Seale, and all
political prisoners
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Box 3 | Folder 17 |
Humanity, Freedom, Peace
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1971 |
Creator: New World Liberation Front|Afro-American Liberation Army
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Box 3 | Folder 18 |
Black News, Vol. 2, No. 1
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1973-04-01 |
Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Angela Davis Newsletter: Harris Still Fails to Implicate Angela
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1972 |
Creator: Philadelphia Committee To Free Angela Davis
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Political newsletter
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Scope and Contents
Contains article regarding Angela Davis' charges and trial in regards to the Soledad
Brothers, as well as a list of happenings (rallies, fundraisers, and other events),
and bookstores related to the Black Panther Party in Philadelphia.
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Box 2 | Folder 2 |
John Huggins Free Hot Breakfast Program for Children
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1970 |
Poster|Mimeograph
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Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Sickle Cell Anemia
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1970-1974 |
Flyer
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Box 2 | Folder 4 |
The Black Panther Party, William Kunstler, and Dave Dellinger are Not Speaking at
Bryant Park Today Because…
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1970 |
Flyer
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Box 2 | Folder 5 |
The Black Panther Intercommunal New Service
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1971-12-26 |
Creator: This special issue of the Black Panther Party newspaper was printed in Vietnamese
and features an illustration of a member of the National Liberation Front (Viet Cong)
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Scope and Contents
No. 5 (Vietnamese)
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Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Free David Hilliard, Free All Political Prisoners
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1971 |
Poster|Screenprint
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Scope and Contents
Text on poster reads, "Railroaded to prison: June 12, 1971. There were no Black People
on the jury in the case of David Hilliard, although 38% of the Oakland Community is
Black."
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Box 2 | Folder 7 |
"The Black Panther Party 40th Year Reunion and Celebration"
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2006 |
Poster
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Scope and Contents
Contains full color reproduction of illustration by Emory Douglas, Ministry of Culture
for the Black Panther Party, and information regarding the Black Panther Party reunion
in Oakland, California. Two copies.
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Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Here and Now For Bobby Seale
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1970 |
Poster|Screenprint
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Scope and Contents
Text reads, "Here and Now For Bobby Seale, We must save Bobby Seale because we must
save the Black Panther Party because we must save the revolutionary spirit in America."
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Box 2 | Folder 9 |
On the 13th Anniversary of the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Join
Us In A March Against Racist Violence!
|
1981 |
Poster|Screenprint
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Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Ramparts
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1970 |
Poster
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Box 3 | Folder 19 |
"War Sucks" button
MU-1744 |
Undated |
Box 3 | Folder 19 |
"All Power to The People" and photograph of Huey P. Newton button
MU-1745 |
Undated |
Box 3 | Folder 19 |
Button with sepia print photograph of Bobby Hutton, first member of the Black Panther
Party
MU-1746 |
Undated |
Box 3 | Folder 19 |
Button with black peace sign on white background.
MU-1747 |
Undated |
Box 3 | Folder 19 |
Button with sepia print photograph of Eldridge Cleaver
MU-1748 |
Undated |